Overclocking is a surprisingly easy way to get extra performance out of your hardware without building a new PC, and it's doable on everything from CPUs and GPUs to RAM and displays. If you can get ...

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The new AMD EXPO technology is offered as a one-click DDR5 overclocking tool for new Ryzen 7000 series CPUs, where AMD promises there's up to 11% enhanced gaming performance at 1080p with it enabled.

ADATA has just announced its new Gold Edition XPG Z1 DDR4 overclocking RAM, which comes in four speeds; 3000/3200/3300/3333MHz. The new memory is perfect for your Haswell-E build, as it will provide ...

The arrival of DDR5 RAM may be nearby with Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 just around the corner, but the fourth generation still has a lot to give. While the base DDR5 clock will be a pretty ...

RAM definitely has a sweet spot, where the frequency at which your performance gains peak comes before the cost and ...

Mark our words, this will be the year that we'll finally see a DDR5-10000 (or faster) memory kit offered at retail. It's only a matter of time, especially now that Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory ...

A computer's central processing unit, also known as its CPU, can be overclocked or underclocked. Overclocking involves the CPU's clock rate above its manufacturer-specified default rate, and ...

Welcome to ExtremeTech's comprehensive RAM guide, in which we'll answer a broad range of questions related to how much system RAM you need these days, whether or not it's worth it to upgrade older ...

It's rare for RAM to fail, but if it does, it can lead to all kinds of problems. It might be that your high-end RAM's overclock is too high, or there's a BIOS issue, or maybe the RAM itself is going ...